Whilst fast forwarding / rewinding pressing the skip forward 30sec or skip back buttons takes you to the next white bar (usually 10 mins) useful in catchup/ondemand which only have one fastforward /rewind speed.

Pressing UP while watching a recording, cycles the output through all the available video formats. e.g. 576p / 1080p

Pressing OK while watching Live TV or a recorded program brings up a small 3 line TV listing guide(screenshot)
Use the directional buttons to navigate or type a channel number to jump to a different channel.

You can create your own folders (effectively):
Auto-record Wish List searches appear in My Recordings as a folder for items which match the search.
This works even for recordings which weren't recorded by the Wish List itself (read more #32)

If you press Play on a folder in My Recordings, it will play everything in the folder in sequence
(date order, oldest first)
- great for catching up on a whole series, or archiving shows overnight via scart.
- this can also save you going into the folder if it only contains one item.

You can switch between tuners by pressing Info, then scrolling down to the bottom icons.

Now the Jump buttons (>|) skip forwards 30 seconds and backwards 8 seconds.
If you want the s1 behaviour of skipping to the start or end of a recording, press and hold them.
(They don't cycle, so you have to press the right one for the direction you want to go.)

In My Shows and Recordings/My Shows/Suggestions/Improve My Suggestions there is a list of every Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down.
You can edit existing thumbs here too

I had mapped my volume controls successfully, but my TV would not power up and down, then someone posted on another thread about the TV power button.

If you hold the tivo remote power button down for a couple of seconds, the light flashes green and the TV will power power cycle. A quick press and the the light flashes red and the tivo power cycles. In theory... my third box is currently be tested by the technician!

Wow! I've been keeping my old (deluxe!) peanut next to the new one, as it didn't appear TV on/off and AV input were included on the new one. Thanks for letting us know, as I would never have guessed either one.

I know it's early days - but does anyone have a discrete for the power ?
I didn't power off my V+ box as I recall it used the same amount of power on as well as off - plus it was brighter off with all the lights on it.

One thing the good lady misses is the display on the front of the old box telling you how far thru a program you were. (fast key of play tells this now).

So far as I know, only the inconvenience of having to push a button to do it, and then push another button to wake it up.

I don't bother because the benefit is minimal. It stops asserting its output, which can help some TVs switch off, but since my TV doesn't have a problem switching off with active inputs this isn't a benefit for me.

The second thing Standby does is tell TiVo nobody is watching it. Series 1 TiVo would only record Suggestions if it thought nobody was lookng, so if you just switched the TV off and walked away, it would wait 30 minutes to be sure you'd gone. I don't know if VM TiVo is the same. Frankly, I'm not bothered about this anyway.

Some more tips:

You can switch between tuners by pressing Info, then scrolling down to the bottom icons.

Now the Jump buttons skip forwards 30 seconds and backwards 8 seconds. If you want the s1 behaviour of skipping to the start or end of a recording, press and hold them. (They don't cycle, so you have to press the right one for the direction you want to go.)

While watching live, OK brings up a mini-Guide for changing channel. In the mini-Guide (or TV Guide), Blue changes the channel filter.

Series 1 TiVo automatically adds a Thumbs Up when you create a Season Pass. VM Tivo doesn't. So if you've already set up your Series Links you might want to go through and Thumb them all, to help kick-start suggestions. You can Thumb new Series Links as you create them.

Some are in the manual, but not obvious if you don't read manuals. It took me 3 days to discover the first one, and it's made me so happy.

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Last edited by Brangdon : 02-19-2011 at 12:54 PM.
Reason: Added Thumbs Up on series links.

Just been through the discovery bar setting Series Links, etc. It does seem quite slow at that.. as slow as the S1! I had some taking a couple of minutes (with the jam donut on screen the whole time so I couldn't do anything).

You have to be really careful what channel it's picking.. It doesn't automatically pick HD, new series, or anything - I got into the habit of always selecting options so I could check/modify.

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Series 1 TiVos did that, but my VM TiVo hasn't on any of the series links I've checked. Maybe it depends on how they get added; I've been doing it from the search menu. Anyway, if it works sometimes and not other times then the tip remains. Something that worked for s1 shouldn't be relied upon for VM.

One nice addition that doesn't appear to be on here - if you reorganise your Season Passes, you can use channel up/down to leap to the next page. No need to scroll one at a time through 30-odd other season passes.

My Planned Recordings does not include Suggestions. If you want to see what programmes TiVo intends to record on its own, look in Search & Browse/Browse All TV/TV/Suggestions. You can use this to check how TiVo is getting on (especially in the early days when few Suggestions have been recorded), and you can use the Thumbs buttons to approve or disapprove of what it is doing.

In My Shows and Recordings/My Shows/Suggestions/Improve My Suggestions there is a list of every Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down. This can also help diagnose problems with too few (or unwanted) Suggestions. (With s1 TiVo, Thumbs Down could easily kill off broad swatches of programme, and it was best to use it sparingly. TiVo responded better to the carrot than the stick. I don't know if this is still true for VM TiVo.)

My Planned Recordings does not include Suggestions. If you want to see what programmes TiVo intends to record on its own, look in Search & Browse/Browse All TV/TV/Suggestions. You can use this to check how TiVo is getting on (especially in the early days when few Suggestions have been recorded), and you can use the Thumbs buttons to approve or disapprove of what it is doing.

Another tip... I see that, at the bottom of this page is says 'Press Enter to review thumbs'. "Uh-oh!" I thought, "there's no 'enter' button." Then I remembered where i was on the S1 peanut and just pressed what is now labeled 'last channel'; and it worked

I'm not seeing this screen, but perhaps that's because I don't have 'auto-record suggestions' switched on.

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Just like the series one, don't press right while re-prioritizing a big series link list in series link manager screen until you are 100% sure you are done. Otherwise it takes ages.

Best practice is to leave re-prioritizing to the last action of the day, as a 200 long list will probably take 15 minutes or more until Virgin and TiVo get round to speeding this up by making it a background task.

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